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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1918)
WESTERN WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET WORLD LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING. STOCK RAISING BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918 NO. 17 Shipbuilding Prospects HEWING SHIP KNEES SECOND DRAFT CALL Junior Red Cross u DYER & PLYMALE TO Is Organized Here GRAVEL COUNTY ROAD LEAD FOR DISTRICT Still Look Promising NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY IS NOW BEING MADE r .ARMENIAN RELIEF DRIVE MEET ING WITH GOOD SUCCESS OUTSIDE OF BANDON. It Is Believed That Government Will Give Permission to Build Boats ALL AVAILABLE MEN ARE BE Here Very Soon. ING PI T TO WORK RY COM PANY NOW OPERATING. tons COUNTY Mist' SEND 12 MEN TO CAMP LEWIS BE- FORE APRIL 2. Boys and Girls of the N'atiou Are Now Helping to Make Neces saries for the Wounded. All kinds of rumors have been The pupils of tue local schools are heard the past few days concerning Beckham A Hinkle Pacing S3.50 a Government Summons WO.tHHt Men working to organize as a Junior Red Contract for 20,000 Cubic Varda of the building of ships here, and many Day W lille Teaching Men How— to h ill Quotas of Regiments Now Cross auxiliary to toe local brunch Gravel at »2.01 per Yard Let liy are interested to know the status of Say They Can Easily Make 105.00 in Training at Various Canton- of the Red Cross. To become an aux County Court to laical Company- the proposed shipbuilding industry iliary an amount equal to 25c, the a Day in Short Time on Piece ments—Credit Given on Second Work to l>e Completed Within a on the lower Coquille. Inquiry re- annuul dues, for every child enrolled Work—Are Shipped Out. Draft—Those subject. Year—To I se County Tractor. veals the fact that it is not yet defi- is required. This will come to be nitely settled whether contracts could tween $125 apd $150. Many pupils Among the local precincts within be gotten for a local yard owing to The Lower Coquille Valley is wit Portland, Mar. 13—Oregon must as can are planning on paying the The work of graveling th® balance the Bandon district, for the Armen the necessity of securing government nessing the beginning of another new furnish 369 men for military service 25c dues, but the committee in of the Township Line road between ian Relief drive that is now in pro permit. However the endeavor *o industry that already is employing ind entrain them for Camp Lewis, charge wishes to urge no one to do gress. Craine’s camp is in the lead. get government consent is being con between 60 and 70 men and bids fair Wash., between March 29 and April so unless their parents feel perfectly Bandon and the Curry county Hue will start at once, according to D. P. Considering the quota assigned to tinued and, it is believed, that when to take care of all the available men 2. as its quota of 90,000 men to be willing Children who cannot see that community by the local com the true facts of the local situation that want to work. The new indus ailed up thruout the United States their way clear to paying dues are I’lymale, who in partnership with El bert Dyer, has taken the contract mittee It will probably oversubscribe are understood by the Federal Ship try is the production of ship knees, in those dates No county in the assured that they can do their share from the county. They were the on to a higher per cent than any other ping Board, their consent will be re used in the construction of wooden state is to be exempted from this in helping work. As soon as the community within the Bandon dis ceived. While the outlook has been j vessels. They are purchased by the Iraft call, according to orders just school receives its charter from the ly bidders for the work and were iwarded the contract at 32 61 per trict. Chairman Geo. P. Laird, who reported bright for some time past, government through J. W. Flanagen. eceived from the war departmen» Red Cross chapter each child in cubic yard of gravel placed on the was in town yesterday stated that it is now believed that prospects for •f Marshfield, agent for this district by tho adjutant general of Oregon, school automatically becomes a on the first day the camp subscribed ?arly action are better than at any E. M. Beckham and Earl Hinkle The 369 men to be taken from the member of the American Red Cross, road, with the condition that they hould pay tlio county 20 cents per 375 and all had not been solicited. time since the shipbuilding industry are the contractors operating In this state on this call will be credited lat- and has a right to wear the pin yard. 5 cents for the cost of the ma The total from there will probably has been revived on the Pacific coast. section. They are working about 40 tr on the quota Oregon is called to The committee of the local organi terial on Floras creeJt and 15 cents be In by tomorrow. Quite a number of private con men at various places along the low furnish In the new draft, the date of zation which has charge of the work for tlie use of the county's new Hult However, Craine’s camp is not the tracts are obtainable, both for steam er river and now have put a large vhfch is yet to be announced. To done by the School Auxiliary is com caterpillur engine and cars. only one taking the lead; practical ers and motorships, and it is alto force to work on the E. H. Fish 111 the present call the men will be posed of the following: Mrs. Endi The amount of gravel to be used is ly all the other local districts are gether possible that government con place south of Bandon. They have inducted out of class one In sequence cott. chairman; Mrs. Stephenson and 20,000 cubic yards, so that this con busy and while none have so far re tracts can also be secured. limber on the R. H. Rosa and other f tlieir order numbers. Mrs W S Wells Tills committee tact will pay the county 33.000 Cor ported it is believed that the smaller places in that vicinity and when C oon Must Send Twelve plans to raise the money for dues nterest and depreciation on a tractor communities outside of the city of LAW YERS OF COUNTY their busines gets well under way Coos county’s share is twelve men. above the amount collected from the >utfit that cost 316,000. The work Bandon proper will come forward MEET HERE FRIDAY will employ several hundred These men will be notifed by the children by giving a number of en ;s to be completed within a year, with their full share on every hand. Ship knees are hewn from the low local board in a few days and par tertainments. For next week they Mr. Pl yin ale says there will be no Four Mile is preparing for a big Coos County Bar Association to Hohl er trunks and roots of trees and large ticulars as to transportation, etc. plan a Military Whist party to be further delay in getting started as benefit social Saturday night, at stumps, the knees ranging in thick nade know. held at the K P. hall, Thursday. hey ure as anxious to get the Job Annual Session—Banquet to be which their quota is to be made up. ness from 6 inches to 2 0 inches. Pric The first twelve men on the class March 21. Later on they plan to mder way as are the people. There for Armenian Relief. Chairman E. E. Foss of the Pros- es paid by the local concern range one list are: Ernest Earl Hughes. give a dance. This year the money •vill be some preparatory work to per district, at noon today, reported from 55c per inch ’for the 6 inch Warren C, earned by the grade musical enter do but it is hoped to begin dumping All the lawyers of the county will sizes to 31.25 per inch for the larg- ^harlie H. Leggett. approximately 361 subscribed. All Foster. Emil Helseth, Phil Sheridan tainment will go to the Junior Red rock very shortly. Bandon tomorrow (Friday), it be in had not been solicited so it is very est. Working by the piece, a man Emery, Ant ne Ala Outinen, Bert Cross. All the money for dues, etc., It is probable that this will be the likely that amount will be increased. >elng the annual meeting of the bar with some experience can easily Ocheltree. Robert H. Lang. Tom C. is used here for material for the largest road contract under way in Prosper has not been found wanting association, The business meeting make 35 a day, say the contractors Smith, Clifford I). Hudson. Wm. children to make up. none is sent to the county the coming summer as the on any patriotic or humane under will take place at two o’clock In the They are paying 33.50 per day of Daniel McKay, J. Wm. Richardson. headquarters. war conditions make the road work afternoon and a banquet will be en taking. eight hours to beginners and are etn- ■ Refugee garments, comfort pil almost prohibitive. The urgent ne Curry county must furnish two joyed In the evening. The banquet ploying all the men they can get. Bandon Fallbig Behind lows, handkerchiefs, wristlets, ar® cessity for the local road is the on men. - In Bandon the east and west so will be served at the 1. O. O. F. hall The new industry «tiers great pos just a few of the things which the ly reason that it will be completed under the direction of the Armenian liciting committees have been busy sibilities for the community as It children can do to help. Some of the now. for several days but u.p until noon Relief Committee, the funds to go gives labor at unusually high prices pupils have already made refugee today only 3319.20 had been report- toward filling the Bandon district to as many men as can be mustered. garments, and the primary pupils of CONTESTANTS TO BE quota. The association has passed ed to Treasurer J. I. Sidwell. This The knees are being shipped to the Eastside building have been SELECTED FRIDAY Hooverizing resolutions and the ban- is far below the amount that Bandon San Francisco and Portland and from lni|w>rtant Matter to tie Considered at making gun wipes. Big Public Gathering at Park- itself must raise in order to meet iuet will conform to food adminis those places many are shipped to the As there are about 23 million I 3 iM-al High School Has Decided to ersburg Saturday, Mar. Iti the quota of 31.000 for the district tration regulations. Atlantic seaboard. i school children in the United States, Enter Oratorical and Declama The committee of the association Solicitors report that many are not it la easy to see how much help they tion Preliminarlee. giving while others who should be >n arrangements is composed of Geo. (The following has come to the at can be. even if each child only mail® IS P. Topping, I. N. Miller and A. giving 35 and $10 are only giving a tention of Western World since the one article. The benefit to the na- Friday morning at ten o’clock the dollar or even less. The people of Stanley, C. F. McKnight has been I-elauil Panter Goes Into Diteli With editorial comment on the farmers tion can not be measured only by preliminary tryout to select represen Bandon must awaken to the justice selected toastmaster and will choose picnic was written. It is hereby as articles made by the children, for tatives to the County Oratorical and CoiiHtcr on Oregon Avenue. and the necessity of this cause and his own subject. A paper will be sured that everyone Is Invited to at the training in the IdealH back of the Declamation contest will be held at Goss. Slated for John D. do their part as they have done in read by lioped that both bust Red Cross movement will make I bet the high school. The following con Leland, the little son of Mr and tend and It is farmers will avail every other call occasioned by the toasts are: Judge Coke. A. 8. Ham- ter citizens of them when they be- testants have entered: ness men and Josephine to uiond. C. R. Wade. J T. Brand, C . A. Mrs. Wm. Panter, wns taken war. tills get-together op- come men and women Croxall, Jessie Bell. Gladys Oakes. Emergency hospital yesterday after themselves of ■lehlbrede and Dwight E. Hodge. Million in Want portunity, t Edna Dippel, Sylvia Marshall, Melden noon after “running off the grade" On An article In the current Red A Dangerous I'laigrounil Coos Agricultural Bulletin: Baker. Thomas White. John Donald the newly plank wlille coasting down Cross magazine. written by 11enrj Saturday March 16. there will be a Parents who do not caro to son, Arnold Haberly. The judges ar® ed Oregon avenue hill In a little Morganthau, former U. S. ambassa good old time Jubilee feast and barn take chances on losing their little Mrs C. F. Pape, Mrs C. Timmons wag< n When the speeding vehicle dor to Turkey, gives a graphic ac Mill at Bullards and Titulier Hold lance to dedicate the big new barn sons will do well to discourage them and Rev J. F. Van Winkle. Foor went Into the ditch Leland was ap- ings Advertised in Lumberman count of the Armenian massacres Just completed by Neal & Lux on the from coasting down th® pewly students, two boys an<l two girls, will tiarently thrown forward with great The horrors are almost unbelievable Perkins ranch, which they have planked Oregon Avenue hill, It is be selected Friday. These will again The fact that a government repre i force, striking Ills upper lip against leased near Parkersburg The for great sport for the little folks but compete in a final tryout w'hen one yet they are facts backed by sta some rigid object. The lip was com mal opening of this commodious cow the hazard of being run over by au boy and one girl will be selected to tistlcs. He states that in a collec- sentative has investigated the Dollar pletely parted clear to the nostrels. palace will occur at 10:30 a m . tomobile is so groat that it Isn't represent Bandon High school in the tl n of documents made by Viscount nlll and timber holdings on the low It was an ugly wound that bled pro Saturday. March 16. It will be an worth the chance. With the spring Oratorical and Declamatory contest Bryce the total Armeninn population er Coquille river, is apparently hav- fusely. He was picked up by F. S all day show, something doing all weather and good roads approaching In which tlie five schools of the coun in Turkey in 1912 was between 1.- ng seme influence wi»h the owners Perry and taken to the hospital in Come early and bring the auto travel on the hill will be ty compete. The final tryout will 600,000 and 2,000,000. Of these as they have suddenly decided to put 'he l»ttet's car. It took several slit the time In your family and feed with you. All very great in a short time and un tie held in connection with the Ban several hundred thousand escaped in the whole outfit on the market ches and required an anaesthetic to the farm folks in Coos county are less coasting Is prohibited there la don Grad® Declamatory content, to the Russian Caucacus. Fully a the last issue of the Pioneer West sew up the wound. Dr. R. V. Leep most cordially Invited to be there and almost sure to be an accident. million were harried out of their ern Lumberman of San Francisco which will take place March 29, in Mbs McKenzie, attending. and help to make it the biggest and best homes and the murdered number they advertise the mill and about the high school auditorium. King ever pulled ott or put on in from 600.000 to 800,000. The re 200.000.000 feet of timber adjacent New F< mm | Cards Are Out hat part of the c wintry. E I. W est mainder, in pitiful want of the bar for sale. The timber Is listed as fir. Income Tax Report ('«infused New Food Cards have arrived in ver of the I'al'y department at O Bandon and are being distributed est necessities of life, hold out theii Port Orford cedar and spruce. The Some confusion rests in the minds On March Sth the following sliip- A. C., C. E Mulkey, county school thru the schools and the Food Drive of several local men as a result of a hands to the Christian fellowship of nlll is said to have a thirty-two acre site, a daily capacity of 100,000 feet i ment was sent to Marshfield: jupervisor, an I the county acent and committee of which Mrs H. J Wai talk with a traveling salesman on America. and facilities for rail or water ship 40 bed shirts; ither local < •store and comedians ker is chairman. The new cards do the income tax question. It seems ping. also five miles of logging rail 13 fracture pillows; will take oar: In ’he program. Ws not require the recipients to make the traveling man conveyed the im 'lore Sulmtitute Flour ordered way track. 22 sweaters; want al) the zchi ol children present, further pledges, but give valuable pression that every man who hand County Chairman Liijeqvlst has for there will be something of special recipe® for using the various food led $2,0i)0 gross if married, or $1,- 20 handkerchiefs; received word from the Oregon food 10 napkins; interest to them about club work, in- substitutes and making the victory 000 gross If single, must submit the administrator at Portland that in the luding a piciurj show. An extra breads, etc. Home will be obtainable facts to the government. This would 2 pair wristlets; future the substitute-flour ration K. 1 pair mils; reel or two will also be run for the at the Library. have required every business man of would be 50 per cent white flour and 59 pair socks. dairymen, madams and mal. i One the city to have submitted a report 50 per cent substitute. This extract from Instructions to of the things of most impcrtauce because all business concerns handle PARENT-TEA« HERS MEETING The Junior Red Cross is preparing the branches and auxiliaries of the to be dlsc.ns’it at tills gather'Dg Is at least 32,000 gross sales a year Bandon Boy “Over There’’ to entertain the general public at a Marshfield chapter will be of interest the desiraoili'y of establishing a even if they are losing money and Probably the first Bandon boy to card party to be given at the K. P. to those who are knitting: laly mail service tor the farmers on Prof. Sueetzrr of I'niversity of Ore the owner has a hard time to raJte up gon W III Be In Attendance. “Sweaters—Sweaters must be 25 the lower Coi.idlle river, and In order drop bombs over Hun trenches or to hall Thursday evening. March 21, be enough cash to have his trouvera fight the Kaiser's birdmen in the air ginning at 8 o’clock sharp. Five inches long from neck to bottom of to put this thing thru. It will be nec- pressed. The government Incom® Parent-Teachers’ Association meet tax applies to net Income. I. e. prof will be Ernest Wilkins A card from Hundred will be the game of the ev ribbing, and from 16 to 20 inches ■■ssary for every family on the river him was received by Mayor and Mrs. ening. while those who would rather wide. Hereafter »e must refuse to between Coquille and Bandon to be ing to b® held at the High School its from businesses after all expenses Topping Tuesday, stating that he had devote their time to knitting are in Issue yarn to those who will not -«presented at thia meeting and sign building next Friday evening. March have been paid, and salaries of em 15th. will be of especial Interest to ployes, the salary in case a business arrived ‘over there'' safely with the vited to bring their work with them agree to follow the rules These are 'he petition for such a service. Half fares will be made on all patron® of the schools as Prof. Sweet- man assigns himself auch. being In A feature of the evening's entertain our Instructions from Seattle 4 4th Aviation Corps. ■ Socks— The legs of socks knit by boats for this barn jollification and zer of the University of Oregon will his case added to hla profits from ment will be the music to be furn ♦ « ished by the following quartet Geo the old directions have been a little he prospects are that everybody will be th® speaker of the occasion Mr. the business and from othsr source®. « « Sweetzer will us® for the subject of No deductions are allowed for living ♦ Erdman, violin Ralph Moore, piano; narrow We urge the use of the new e there OOMMITTE TO CANVASS ♦ lecture, "Oregon Flowers" His expenses, although donations, such were sent to the sock rules which H. Brown, trombone and Mr James, « ♦ *slk will be interesting snd instruc as that to the Red Cross, Armenian New Black Sand Machine and which call for branches recently. cornet The price for score cards and The War Savings committee ♦ ♦ An appropriate program of or Belgian Relief funds, etc., are O T Crosby, mining man from tive 60 stitches in the leg ” ♦ la making arrangements for a ♦ refreshments will be 35c. A gen music, etc. is being arranged. attendance Seattle, has had a black sand con- Red Cross work room given credit for and deducted from « house to house canvass of the « eral invitation is extended and It is past week follows: Tuesday— entratlna machine manufactured hoped many will attend The Junior 'he Income before the tax is levied. ♦ town during nation War Stamp ♦ Voge Made County Director Mesdemes P W. Damron, J J Dam- iccording to his own specifications ♦ week. March 19th to 23rd. to « Red Cross of America is organized ron, L. L. Waiter. J M Adams, A at the Bandon Iron Works last week, Dr F A Voge ha® been made dl- for the purpose of making garments Enlitsmenta in the regular army ♦ ♦ acquaint the people with W’ar C Adams, J Stanley Van Winkle, E ■nd I® tiling the machine a tryout at rector of the county for Dental Pre •Ince April 1. 1917, have been more ♦ Savings certificates and stamps « for the Belgian and other reedy T Wolverton. J. W Allen, W. M Whiskey Run today A donkey and paredness league Those rejected • han 379.000 ♦ and to answer any questions ♦ children Rate®. J P Dickey. G T Treadgold. craper have been furnished by from the army on account of bad ♦ ♦ that may be propounded con ♦ • Superintendent Chas Johnson of H. R Wilson. E. A Philpott. H J. lenry Axtell, who is aiding in the ’eeth will have their teeth repaired ♦ « cerning the stamps. This can ♦ vork If the operations prove the without charge by any dentist who * « WORLD HONOR ROLL • he Macleay cannery at Parkersburg, Walker. ♦ vass will be made by adults. ♦ Wednesday- — Mesdames Wilson. S equipment to he a success Mr Crosby * a member of the league • ♦ arrived from the north this week He ♦ ♦ ♦ « Chat. Hall of Cooe Bay, and Galller, A D. Moore. E Gallier, L ntends to engage in black sand mln- ♦ other members of the Coos and ♦ is Inspecting the machinery, etc at W. Turnbull, Best, Schotter, Eaton. ng on a large scale. H W. Donahue. Bandon In spite nf unsettled conditions, to- the plant, preparatory to making any ♦ Curry committee will be here on ♦ R E. Baker. Coquille. 'al American trade with Russia S'lpt G. Hoyt. H Pearce, A ♦ Saturday night to confer with ♦ repairs that may be needed before Th® rami sign to raise a second im un’ed to 3138,000.000 in 191?, Sylvester Wtlcom, Bandon Thursday Mesdames Boyle. Gale. the coming fishing season. He was ♦ the local committee with regard ♦ Mrs J. Johnson. Oakland, Cal. Walker. Fish. Fish, Butler. White. Rosa 3100.000.000 has been announced by a decrease of only 339.000.000 .is ♦ to boosting thrift and war sav ♦ accompanied by his father. Geo. the American Red Crows for th® week W J Sweet Bandon compared with 1915. This decrease Laivo. Friday Mesdame® Dann, Mesdames . ♦ ing stamp sale®. The meeting ♦ Johnson, superintendent of the com- To date nearly vas in the trad® with Asiatic Russia R F Shrnnon. Bandon The Dandall. Houston Garoutte. Jone®, beginning May 6 panv's plant at 'tedderburn ♦ will be held in Dr Endicott's « eider Johnson went to Curry coun-i Wolverton, C. Rasmussen, S. John- 390.000.000 has been appropriated and I* attributed to congestion snd n T Teaney, Bandon « ♦ office. for war relief work. Import reetrlctiona at Vladivostok Chas. E Schuldt, Helena. Moat. ty to inspect the plant there. ¡son. Committee«, tn Town Not Meeting With the Success ~ Necessary to Make Up City's Share of Bandon District Quota—I’Tusper Already Ha* IMG ■our Mile Coming Up. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦